Imagine waking up one morning to find that Earth’s atmosphere has vanished—gone, as if erased by an invisible hand. Suddenly, ...

Indeed, in the cosmic images below you'll glimpse some of the farthest-away views of our humble, ocean-blanketed Earth ever captured by humanity. When we view other objects, worlds, stars, or even ...

The first images of Earth, though low-resolution and ghostly, arrived at a time when space and defense technology was rapidly advancing. Here are the first images ever taken of our humble planet.

It wasn't until 1946 that humans first saw what the Earth looked like from space. These iconic images of our planet now include "Blue Marble," "Pale Blue Dot," and "Earthrise."; The farthest is ...

HOUR AND SHOW YOU WHEN THINGS CLEAR OUT. CHRIS, THANK YOU. EARLY THIS MORNING ON MOST OF US FOR SLEEPING. NASA’S LAUNCHED A NEW SATELLITE INTO ORBIT. OUR SYDNEY CHADWICK IS JOINING US NOW WITH A ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above thunderstorms.

"If, somehow, I could go to space and take a bunch of iPhone pictures of Earth, one of them would surely look something like this." If you're wondering why TRISAT-R took this image in the first ...

Earth's atmosphere is a mixture of gases that are held in place by gravity. By far the largest component is nitrogen, which makes up nearly 80% of the atmosphere.

The images show the chromosphere, the middle layer of the sun’s atmosphere, which can reach over 13,000 degrees Farenheit. The pictures vaguely resemble the bright yellow flowers in Vincent van ...

Earth as oxygenator. Earth loses about 90 tons of gas—mainly hydrogen and helium—to space every day. That’s tiny compared to the mass of our atmosphere, so there’s no cause for alarm. But ...

Turbulence in our atmosphere blurs images through the same effect that makes stars twinkle at night. ... As with weather on Earth, an accurate long-term weather forecast can be vital.